Watch The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) Online

From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution. Part one, "The Collapse," includes an extended interview with Pierre Mendès-France, jailed for anti-Vichy action and later France's Prime Minister. At the heart of part two, "The Choice," is an interview with Christian de la Mazière, one of 7,000 French youth to fight on the eastern front wearing German uniforms. Read More

Watch The Sorrow and the Pity online. Featuring Georges Bidault and Matthäus Bleibinger, The Sorrow and the Pity is classified as Documentary and History genre movie with an average rating across the web of 7.6. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in France and was released on 1969. The Sorrow and the Pity was directed by Marcel Ophüls,Alain de Sedouy,Claude Vajda. Read Less